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ART a AW Sa PENG I ag LRN ' #exciting," however, 'game, .crease@ 22.4 per cent, ; 'dict of chance. . community Voice of the Press e CANADA. Clean and Fast. * Hockey can he both "hectic" and without -being foul. The sooner sport publicistd in both the® United States and Canada desist from fostering the illusion that hockey is a savage and sanguinary. the better for professional hockey. The truth 'is that it can be the cleanest as well as the fastest game in the world --Ottawa Citizen. Timber Problem, It is reported from Orangeville that fn two years 469,000 trees have been . planted. in the Dufferin County for- 'est reserve. If such practical work were carried on throughout; the Do- "minion its timber problem would be solved in another generation or s0.-- Toronto Globe. .8ign of Improvement, 1t does look as if the depression is being discouraged. In Canada for the fourth successive month, sales of new automohjles at retail in October show a gain over the corresponding month in 1932. The number in- % while their value increased 19 per cent. The number of trucks and buses sold ghowed a gain of 20.4 per cent., while their value increased 50.9 per cent.-- Brandon Sun. The Greater Peril. A game of checkers so excited four Apache Indians that a fight followed which ended in four deaths. The authorities had better keep this tribe fn ignorance of contract bridge--Ed- monton Journal. : A Good Paper. A good town paper is not the pro- It is. the growth of time, brains, energy, essevitially, the loyal support of the it' serves.--Renfrew Mer- cury. Rights of the Citizen. Perhaps it is this 'thing--determina- tion 'to preserve the rights of the citizen--that makes British law and justice things apart. Justice in Brit- ain is not merely an ageucy to pun- {sh wrong-doers; it is something' to unhold liberty; the thing that Macau- lay had. in mind when he spoke of "law sustained by liberty, and 1ib- erty -sustained by law." It is a tra- dition which we here in Canada may always follow to our gain, --Ottawa Jousnal. : And Toronto a Centennial. When writing your friends don't neglect to remind them that Port Arthur will have a semi-centennial celebration 'next year--Port Arthur News-Chronicle. No 'Hopper Boundary. Grasshoppers know no international poundary, a factor which is increas- (ngly important with - the knowledge. that a trend from comparatively harm- less types to types of a migratory pature is in evidence. Indeed, much of the area found infested in West- ern Canada this fall was populated by 'hoppers which flew in from un- . xnown sources--\Winnipeg Free Press. Billboard Restrictions. A news despatch from Quebec states that Hon. E.. Perrault, Minister of Roads. and Mines, has concluded ne- gotiagjons with national cominercial and advertising companies to the ef- fect that -at the beginning of next year billboards' will no longer be placed close to provincial highways. This is a safety step that might well be taken in Ontario. The - billboard distracts the attention of some speed- Ing motorists - on country highways wd (hereby causes traffic accidents. " Diphetheria Prevention, Results at Ottawa. confirm the evi dence from other™vities, wheve ener getic immunization- programs have been carried out, as to the possibil- Ity by this means not merely of. end- devotion and, Canada, The Empire and The World at Large Current Business. More widespread employment, even overtime operations in some trades, renewed interest in cohstruction, & larger share in the trade and an increase in exports of basic commodities, including animal products, metals and newspriut, are the features of recent developments in Canadian economy. A considerable im- provement in Canada's position in re. lation to the international. balance of payments is foreshadowed by her more favorable showing on merchandisa ac. count.--Monthly Letter of the Cena- dian Bank of Commerce, Daughters of Canada. Marie Dressler, the Canadian-born screen star, though 62 years of age, has staged a great comeback and is today the most popular screen actress in the United States. May Pickford, America's sweetheart, is also a Cana- dian, as is Norma Shearer. Canadians are justly proud of the foremost place taken in the entertdinment world by daugliters of the Dominion, THE EMPIRE. A Tercentenary. At Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, England, there was celebrated the ter- centenary of the sailing from Cowes on November 22, 1633, of the little ships, the Ark and the Dove carrying the first British settlers to Maryland, U.S.A. A bronze plaque, presented by the Ark and Dove Soclety in Mary- land, was then unveiled; it was hand- ed over by Lord Fairfax, a descend: ant of one of the first British set- tlers in the American state.--Inver- ness Review, 'The Housing Problem, The number of houses required is still colossal, and 'a recent estimate in -a responsible quarter has put the figure at 1,400,000. The Census fig- ures of 1921 show clearly that houses in some such numbers wiil be want. ed if overcrowding is to be ended; an overcrowding is not merely a fea- ture of existing slums but the most potent cause of future slums. Even it it were true that at some time in the distant future this deflclency would be made good without any fur- ther development of housing policy, the Government would be well advis. ed to do something td advance tis happy time, provided always that a new effort did not infiict indirect and counterbalancing disadvantages upon the poor whom it Is destined to bene- fit,--Loudon Times. Close, Budgeting. A committee of the British Medical Association has created something in the nature of a sensation by declaring that the average man doing moderate hiuscular work can be fed for 5s. 10d. (about $1.40) per week. The commit- tee is rot content with a generaliza- of the various articles of food in the dietary. . 1: is all very well to say that the dietary provides an average of 3,386 calories per day, but how is the two-ounce ogg te ba distributed, how many meals will the one-half pound of liver. or minced meat, or bacon or corned beef provide for a hungry man?. The distribution of the one and three-quarter pint of milk over a full week is somewhat of a problem in warm weather when sup- plies have to be bought daily it they are to be reasonably fresh. Practical caterers providing for large numbers ot men might keép to the cost as an average, but the Individual kept to & selentific diet would soon -become a man with a grievance against the world.--Edinburgh Scotsman. : Standards of Living. Japan is taking our markets, is tak- ing even our business of carrying these goods. Japan's millowners pros. per; Japan's shipowners reap the harvest of the waters, How is it done? Because the Japanese work: ers live more cheaply. Could we? Un- doubtedly. The British Medical Asso- Ing diphtheria epidemics 'in a commu: aiation is telling you that any healthy nity but eventually stamping it out. "It has been proved beyond question that the toxoid treatment both pre: vents diphtheria and saves lives where the disease has got a foothold, There 1s no longer. any reason to fear this former "dread disease which took in the past a heavy toll of lives and caused untold suftéring and sorrow. All parents should feel it a duty to seo that their children get this sim ply-administered, inexpensive protec: Mon. --Kingston Whig-Standard. "A Nice Piece of Work. | 'Mrs. John Horne, Jr. of Port Col borne, grew weary of the number of times a 'burglar was making his way into her home. On one occasion the burglar had secured $4 in cash and gome rings. At other times he had come, and Mrs, Horne was certain "he always entered by a cellar win- dow. Mrs. Horne was ready to recelve 'him when he came again, She turned the lights, took up her 'stand in 'had with her as com- {ger the family rolling 1Ar came, He entered Mrs. Horne went pL ; ar o police trattord man can live on 5s. 104d, a week, Maybe he can, especially if he starts the week healthy and well nourished. It might not be 80 good, say, with two years' unemployment as the 'prelude. Most of the world could live a little worse than it does. The question is: Why should it? World rulers every- where are cutting down production, while hungry citizens go short. The priests of Baal who cut themselves with knives did not commit more folly.~--London Dally Express, 4 THE UNITED STATES The Land Looking Up. So much publicity is given to farm mortgage foreclosures and farm dis- tress that there is an impression that farm land no longer has value, This is, of course, absurd. There are far- mers who are living and paying debts free from debt. Food is being pro- meet even under the ddyerse circums stances of the last few years, More- over, there ara persons who are look- them, Land is baslc, It either comes back or a country perishes, and there is no body who anticipates the down: world' wheat |" tion, but makes a detailed statement | food, donated by citizens, is off, and thousands of farmers who are | duced and producers are making ends | ing for farms, with the money to buy |. Ls al] of the United States --Topeke | Dally Capital. : | "Think I'll hop along to the sunny southland," say some fed up with Toronto's cold 'weather. Buty maybe they'll change their minds when they see this picture of Californians digging out thelr car after, a 56-inch snowfall, & 102 New Ships by 1939 Asked for U.S. Navy Washington, -- The United States navy is planning to ask congressional authorization for an "ambitious ship construction and replacement program designed to establish the service on treaty parity basis by 1939. Under present plans, Congress will be asked to approve two resolutions, one to authorize building the navy to the strength allowed by the London naval treaty or any other arms agree- |. ment to which the United States might become a party, the other to authorize the President to maintain the fleet at that strength, Under the navys present idea, the' fleet would be brought to treaty strength by 1939. To bring it to full strength, 102 ships must be construct: ed, or approximately 20 ships for each fiscal year. The program for next year would call for two heavy destroyers or destroyer leaders, 12 destroyers, one cruiser carrying eight-inch guns, two cruisers carrying six-inch guns and six sv marines. This would leave the navy with the following new con- struction and replacement to he built by 1939: 24 submarines, 61 destroyers, thrae cruisers carrying six-inch guns and one aircraft carrier of 15,200 tons. ~The total cost of the treaty strength program, including equipment and air. planes, is roughly estimated at $516,- 000,000, or approximately $100,000,000 a FRAT. rE To mat such & fleet with an 85 per cent. complement, enlisted strength, would be increased from the- present 79,200 to about 100,000 and marine strength from 15,200 to about 20,000. With the $238,000,000 turned over to it by President Roosevelt from public works funds and $46,000,000 of regular appropriations, the navy is now. build- ing or has contracted for 64 ships. The ultimate purpose of the navy's program is to eliminate the present method of authorization for a consid- erable quantity of vessels in one cate- gory and then having them 15 or 20 years hence ull become average at the same time. ; Partridges Enter City to Get Food Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.--Hungarian partridge--hundreds of them----are on welfare relief in the Soo. Citizens are responding to the plea of the Game, Fish and Forest. Asso- ciation to feed the birds. Snow has been removed from extensive lots and being thrown daily to them, Several hun- dreds 'of the birds, driven by hunger from the woods, redently invaded the city. . : Plane Nearly Crashes : On Buckingham Palace London, Eng.--Crowds watching the ever-popular ceremony of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace were startled recently when an airplane passed, apparently only a few feet above the roof of the palace. 2 Z ; The plane, which was in trouble, made a forced landing in Hyde Park, a short distance away, Its occupants were uninjured. : The King and Queen, who were in residence at the palace, made in- quiries. : SA An 'eye-witness = said the. plane swerved sharply to avoid crashing in- to a flagstaff, "It looked for a mo- ment that he could not avoid hitting some part of the palace, but by a great effort he managed to get the plane away," the eye-witness said. Some of the women in the crowd screamed. : - Tear Gas Causes Panic At War Demonstration Bucharest. -- The drastic methods pursued by an army officer at his lecture on gas and air defense in the Village of Csikesicso recently caused a panic among the audience. : To .demonstrate the effect of tear gas and the methods of defense against it, the: colonel. released the contents of a tear-gas bomb. The audience, consisting mainly of women and children, taking it for poisonous gas, jumped up from their seats and rushed to the exits. In the ensuing panic all window panes were smashed and a number of persons seriously wounded. Three 'children who were trampled under foot are not expected to recover. rr *f Cattle Rustlers Aided By Women in Southwest Pueblo, Col.--Southwest peace offi- cers are looking for the queen of cat- tle rustlers. A cattle rustling ring that has operated in Colorado, Kan- sas, New Mexico and Oklahoma is be- lieved to be directed by a woman who has several men and women in her employ. » 3 The "womery' dptain jobs as cooks on ln ! tures and round-yps. This information goes to the higher-up and one night a fleet of trucks carries away live- stock. The cook leaves soon for an- other job. The stolen cattle are taken to the Denver, Wichita or Oklahoma City market and sold before the owner can report his loss. .| and - Jacob Winer. nd] study brands, pas-| Names Eighteen Men Who Understand Money New York.--Eleven college profes: gors, two bankers, and five foreign authorities were listed last week as 'ithe persons in the world who under- stand the real meaning of money," by | Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale. The prominent economist, in reply to a request of the Consumers Guild of America, listed the following pro- fessors: : Harry G. Brown, University of Missouri; G. F. Warren and F. H. Pearson, Cornell University; J. Har- vey Rogers, Yale; Willford I. King, New York University; John R. Com- mons, University of Wisconsin; Dr. warren N, Persons, New York Cily; Edwin W. Kemmerer, Princeton; 'Cyril James, University of Pennsyl- vania; John H. Williams, Harvard, } Unjversity of Chicago. - San The bankers Include Frank A. "Vander!lp, former ,president of' the, National City Bank, and George Le Blanc, former Equitable Trust Com- pany official. "Among the torelgn academic .monetary economists there arg Key- nes, of England; Cassell, of Sweden;. Frisch, Gavernitz, of Germany, and among bankers, Reginald McKenna, of Eng- lad, Fisher added. Professor Warren, named in the American group, 'is the present mon- etary adviser to President Roosevelt, Conspicuoutly absent . from the list were Professor O, M. W. Sprague, re- cently resigned Treasury adviger, Colonel Leonard P, Ayres, of Cleve. land, widely-known as an authority, and Fisher himself. : E. C. Riegel, president of the Guild, disclosed that a list of 15 ques- tions pertaining to money would be mailed to the 18 authorities named, and that from the replies a sympos- fum would be compi'ed and mailed to all members of Congress, Dcmirion and Provinces May 'Confer January 17 Ottawa.--Indications are that the Dominion + Provincial - Conference scheduled for Jan. 11, will be post. poned to Jan. 17, to meet the wishes of Premier L. A. Taschereau of Que- bec. Premiers of all the provinces were queried as to the stability of the later date, and all but one had replied agreeing to the change, or Request for the later date was made by Premier Taschereau because the Quebec Legislature will assemble on Jan. 9 and no large delegation of min- isters could be spared to come to Ot tawa so soon after the opening of the House, Grumbling Onta ore's what happened when Old Sol turned his' thousands of tons of water into small streams which flood were lost, : EN gra rio Residents View This! of Norway; . Van Schulze | of which are heavily traveled, writes the Electrical News and Engineering. For instance, way joining Windsor and Montreal is used con- What a splendid. contribution to safe ty to commerce, and to Canada's tour- ist trade, it would be if this main highway were adequately illuminated, At the present time the many mu- nicipalities én route light about 756 miles, but there still remain unlighted about 4756 miles between Windsor and the Ontario-Quebee border, A super- ficial survey would show that, owing to the advantageous existing facilities along this route, the capital cost of installing complete lighting would be around $700,000, and the total annual 'charges, including interest, deprecia- tion, maintenance, power and lamp re- newals would be only $200,000 per annum, ; i Would not this investment pay for soon light their 50 miles from the boundary to Montreal, the municipali- ties would improve their lighting, and this highway would then become one of the most traveled and safest high- ways on this continent. es London Preparing In Event Gas Attack London.--Lord Moynihan and other great doctors and surgeons have been asked by the Home Office to help in the task of creating an organization to protect the civil population from poison gas attacks. : A series of conferences has recently been held in London between these. medical experts, Home Office officials, representatives of the War Office and others. : At theso meetings the protection of: civilians from hostile gas bombing by means of respirators was discussed. The Home Office so far has not yet iats any decision as to whether it will "encourage the purchase of -gas: masks by civilians, Bf gas ~The protection of the civil popula- tion from air attacks is not, of course, the only subject which government officials are considering. Plans are 'being drawn up for the removal of various national "nerve centres" from London in case of an emergency. \ : Whitehall is now considered too "vulnerable" for the Admiralty, War Office or 'Air Ministry when "the next war" occurs, is a Snowball Bridge Rolls . : Up Charity Funds Berlin. --"Snowball Bridge" for charity has become all the rage in Berlin. - : To reise funds for the Nazi winter relief work, Baroness Voi Ueurath, wife of the German Minister of For- eign Affairs, invited 700 guests,.in- cluding' the whole diplomatic corps, to a bridge party, each guest paying one mark (about 25 cents) into the fund. "Each guest moreover undertook to give another bridge party, large or small, on the same terms; the 'guests at these.to keep up the chain. ® Thus, the Nazi campaign conducted under the slogan 'no German shall suffer hunger or cold t is winter" promises to be a success. 5 - *, Ema] Ontario. to Preserve 5 : Early Architecture oronto.--The recording of ea buildings and lands, and the ay tion of the early architecture of the -province are the aims of the recently inaugurated Architectural Conserv- ancy of 'Ontario. The Lieutenant- Governor was named honorary presi- dent and Mr, H. S. Southam president. Many. buildings erected early in the history of Ontario have a high 'degree | of architectural merit, said Mr, South. am. 'Most of them were built by the United Empire Loyalists, and many were even luxurious, The association proposes to try und have the old Fort Henry at Kingston restored, the work to be done as an unemployment relief project. 5 2) --_------ in Latest 1933 Diseases Were Suffered by Ancients St. Louis,--There are "very few | diseases which men have today that the ancient. men did not have," Dr, "| Howard A. McCordock of the Wash- ington University School of Medicine 'told the members of the St. Louis Medical Society. , "From time to time we run across malady," Dr. McCordock said. "We are prone to believe that many degen- erative diseases are the result of the artificial life of the present day, A study of mummies, however, quickly convinces us that there are very few chronic diseases that ancient man did not have, #008 AG Ried : "Mummies of ancient Egypt show chronic arthritis, decayed teeth, ti- berculosis and other maladies, "There is $he 'case of the Egyptian woman with coal dust fn her lungs," ent 3 itself? The Quebec authorities would | a disease, that is supposed to be a new! Once - Rich Russian ( Money for Trips % tinually both summer and winter by| Nice private and commercial licensed ve-| koy 'hicles, and particularly by tourists. |p , aged: 84, poor and practically forgotten. °H #4 ph was saved' from being buried in the potter's field through Swedish inter- Yention, a : Ho ; ; riakov's generosity' made sible one of the greatest Ss .achievements of the past century, the discovery of the Northeast Passage, that is, the circumnavigation of nort ern Asia by the famous Swed X= plorer, Baron E. A. Nordenskiold in the years 1878-80. The Russian 'milk. lionaire, himself an Arctic explorer, contributed generously not only to the Nordenskiold expedition but also to several other important scientific explorations in Siberia and the Arctic regions. ; : exiled through the Russian revolution, lost every penny of his enormous for- tune and was reduced to a life of com- plete destitution until in 1920 the .gov- ernment at Stockholm learned about 'his fate and granted him a State pen- sion for life. : : His last resting place, a grave in the ® Russian cemetery in Nice, was also donated by Sweden, and a single wreath from the Swedish minister of education was placed on his coffin. He was followed to the grave by fiva persons, his French landlady, the Swedish consul at Nice, two friends and a Russian clergyman. : Like so many others Sibiriakov was - The Swedish press devoted reverent i and grateful homage to the memory. of the man, whose tragic fate formed such a strange contrast to the glory = which surrounded the achiavements made possible through his generosity. i -- yr i: Old Scouts to Form Branch of Boy Scout Movement ' The Boy Scout movement achiev. ed an added 'distinction, when a grad-: 'uate member of 'the 10th Calgary Troop, R. I. D. Fenerty, B.A. LL.B, was recently awarded a Rhodes Ox- ford Scholarship. Troop No. 125 was organized. the same day -as the 'ane nouncement mentioned in this city at St. Mark's Church, West Toronto, An interesting and important develop: ment in this great movement has. been launched by Lord Baden-Powell, It is the Old Scout Branch and bids fair to make a worthwhile contribu. tion fo international friendship and good-will, as in the 'world, Lord Bad- en-Powell says, there are 15,000,000 persons "eligible = for membership in thig branch. In various ways through- out the world the Boy Scouts have demonstrated their ability and de- sire to-do~a "good turn" 'and display the. qlia itles that Scout life develops. It 13 also recalled that about the close of the Great War the Chief Scout ex- pressed the conviction that the move- ment hed a great future as a peace agency, and a Scout commissioner gave it as {s opinjon that an attempt at international ~ orgnization would fail as the movement yi 'tottering to its fa'l" B.-P, replied. "Let us totter and let us carry on" Since then four international jam- borees have been held, bringing to- gether in a friendly spirit boys from - all quarters of the globe, represent: ing 2,225,000 actively identified with this great cause. And now-the Nid Scout branch hag great possibilities --Toronto Mail and Empire, ) es Toronto. Museum Gets Chinese Wall, Picture _Toronto.--The largest Chinese wall picture in the world, similar to those in museums in Boston, Great Bri and Philadelphia, except that a larger, has recently heen added to the collection at the Royal Canadian Mu- seum here. Measuring 18 feet by 40 feet, the picture, dated 1300 A.D., was painted on: a mud wall of a temple dedicated to the god of agriculture, It was secured for the museum by the Canadian missionary, Bishop White of Honan, . / : After three months' work," Mr. G. L. Stout of Harvard hag Ai the pieces about two feet square inta" which the" picture had been cut for Shipping, I has been transferred to a linen background. Representing s Buddhist scene, the picture is in ihe 7 of reds, browns and greens, = Si, 10 Million to Be Spent - Dublin~=A further step in the cam: palgn to make the Irish state eco- nomically self-sufficient has * been taken by the letting of contracts fo- talling nearly $10,000,000 for beat.su- gar factories, / : Three new factories, at Mallow, Thurles and Tuam, are to be iE In the effort to mavs the Frees State By hi was already . , For Irish Sugar Mille Y) tie i » ; of independent of foreign sources of sups | bly. : - rogross by has of Agri. fi Valuable 'nformation rogarding the 'market requirements of the boen collected by gover PRE Dom nion Lin ¥